Further to Cheryl Edgecombe's posting earlier today, after an hour and one-half delay, the Painted Bunting was sighted again at the feeder at 12:30 P.M. It fed for about five minutes and thrilled about a dozen birders.
Good luck and good birding. Dennis & Gwen Lewington and Carl Hamann Painted Bunting courtesy Ron Ridout: Directions to the Hidden Valley campground are: Highway 24 south through Simcoe, bearing west around the curve at Young's Creek. Travel west on 24 to Regional Rd. 10. Turn south (left from the east, right from the west) towards Turkey Pt. Travel south past 2 concessions and the entrance to Turkey Pt Provincial Park (on the left). Just south of the entrance to the provincial park, turn east (left) on the Front Rd. (I don't think it is signed but I believe there is a sign pointing left to Normandale). Travel 2.2 kms. east as the Front Rd winds through the forest and then down the hill into Normandale. Near the bottom of the hill you will come to Moles Road on the north (left) side that bears diagonally back to the northwest. Turn left on this road and travel to the second driveway on the right (200 metres). This is the well signed entrance to the Hidden Valley campground. Drive down this long driveway to the main office and park in the parking area on the left side of the office. Remember to check in at the office and pay the parking fee. To the left of the office and public parking is the main driveway into the campground itself. After leaving the office, walk around the yellow traffic gate. Walking up this driveway, you will come almost immediately to a brown washroom building on the right. Just past this building, the driveway splits. Bearing right at this split, the bird is coming to the hanging feeder at the first trailer on the right past the washrooms. These feeders are best viewed from the vicintiy of the washrooms Dennis & Gwen Lewington Stoney Creek, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 9 22:38:19 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA9E47F11 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:38:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sympatico.ca ([209.226.140.36]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:51:44 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:45:05 -0400 From: Gordon Bellerby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-SYMPA (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ontbirds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:34:57 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ptd Bunting/Cattle Egret X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:38:19 -0000 Best viewing of the Bunting is as Ron Ridout suggests from S side near Washroom.To-day at 1230 p.m.photographers were on the N sideand were somewhat frustrated.Bring bird-seed! Cattle Egret was on King Roadat 230 pm in with Canada Geese and Cattle.King road runs N off hwy 3 some 2 kms east of entrance to Rock Point P.P.and the farm is about 250 M off #3 on the left with no parking problem.
